{"id":23416,"date":"2013-07-12T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23416"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:46:15","slug":"grant-fuels-brock-research-into-bone-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/07\/grant-fuels-brock-research-into-bone-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant fuels Brock research into bone development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has awarded <a title=\"Wendy Ward\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/kinesiology\/wendy-ward\" target=\"_blank\">Kinesiology professor Wendy Ward<\/a> and co-applicant <a title=\"Paul LeBlanc\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/community-health-sciences\/paul-j-leblanc\" target=\"_blank\">Community Health Sciences associate professor Paul LeBlanc<\/a> funding of $499,876 for their research &#8220;Programming of bone development through early life exposure to soy isoflavones and folic acid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research will follow up on &#8220;promising&#8221; data that early life exposure to soy isoflavones, present in soy infant formula, and folic acid results in healthier and stronger bones at adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year project aims to identify long-lasting benefits of early life nutrition to bone and muscle health during aging and in the subsequent generation.<\/p>\n<p>The research may help in developing nutritional guidelines that reduce the risk of osteoporosis-related fragility fracture.<\/p>\n<p>CIHR is Canada&#8217;s federal funding agency for health research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has awarded Kinesiology professor Wendy Ward and co-applicant Community Health Sciences associate professor Paul LeBlanc funding of $499,876 for research &#8220;Programming of bone development through early life exposure to soy isoflavones and folic acid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1161,1163,20,3325,1162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23418,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23416\/revisions\/23418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}